Who should I vote for? Undecided voters take to Google as general election polls open
Google has teamed up with news organisations to provide tools and updates as voting begins
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Your support makes all the difference.Tens of thousands of undecided voters are heading to Google in an attempt to work out who they should vote for.
“Who should I vote for?” is one of this morning’s trending topics on the search engine, with over 10,000 people searching for the phrase on the morning of the general election.
Google has provided plenty of coverage, from a special Google Doodle to tools to help people find where they should vote and who for.
Clicking on the Google Doodle takes users to a search for “UK election candidates”. At the top of that page is a reminder that election day is today, and a specially-created tool from Google that uses a postcode or constituency name to find out who will be on users’ ballot.
After polls have closed and results start to come, in Google will begin to display them in a similar card when users search for relevant words. It has rolled out similar features in recent elections including those in India.
All of the election data is being provided to Google by the Press Association newswire. That tie-up began in April and will run until all of the results are in.
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